Weekly Summary

I noticed that I'm coming back and write on a weekly basis. That's probably the largest difference between life as a graduate student and that of a professional. Weekend use to mean little when everyday feels like weekend and yet weekend feels like weekday. Graduate student aren't supposed to break their week down to working time and rest time. :-)

Every week in New York is full of changes and surprises. The biggest change this week--I moved from my luxurious 72 street apartment 50 block west to the current place near columbia (you do the math). New roomies are from TaiWan. They are as soft spoken as many other girls from TW. We had dinner together on the day of my arrival. We became friends after the meal.

Then there's the surprises during the week. I met the head of the muni strategy group and had great talk with him. I got in contact with Leanne, my SFI buddy now teaching at Queens. Then I saw Sriram and Anna at the MSCF cocktail party...

On the family side, I got the unexpected msg from my old buddy when I was a girl that my parents caught flu and she saw them in the local hospital. Called right away and felt really bad that none of me and my sis was arround when they need us. On the other hand, the day after, when they couldn't reach me by IM or phone call or Ed, they went into panic and thought that I was kidnapped and wanted to call the NY police from their home in China! Such is the kind of love that is truely unconditional.

Ed and I went through some difficult times. Everytime, we revisited the holygrail of marriage blues. In the heat of any argument, we couldn't spare the harsh words to gain the upper wind of it. We have much to learn and adapt.

Ed is moving back to Hartford today. We had precious memories in the Brookville apartment that he is leaving. We felt like a real family when we lived there and do all those things that couples do together. I was cooking a lot and loved it. Ed took me for some most exotic trips in and around the town. We watched drive-in movie in the "moonlite" theater in our comfie SUV, and we went to see the philly predicting the winter. Those were sweet days.

I don't know what is ahead of us as the long distance continue. I know to a large entend I have to change to make it work. Will I achieve this?